Update: Look at the end of the post.
Yahoo's acquired Maktoob has launched its first application for the iPhone called "Maktoob Dictionary."
Maktoob Dictionary is a text translation app from English to Arabic and vice versa, it has around 160,000 Arabic and English words and phrases and enables you to bookmark words.
The app also c...
Jeeran is an interesting Arab internet company because its story resembles the stories you hear about in Silicon Valley (USA): A Tech startup that starts from the founders' garage or dorm and then makes it big (example: HP, Yahoo and Google to name a few.)
Jeeran was founded in 2000 by then two Jordanian students and entrepreneurs Omar Kouds...
Jeeran one of the popular social media communities in the Arab world has recently launched a new subsidiary called Jeeran Research a research agency tailored to the Arab world (they call it MENA !) that competes directly with Yahoo’s Matoob Research.
The new company is using a new reward based Arabic/English survey community called Nazra...
Yesterday, the second day after the biggest news in the Arab Internet world since ever -Yahoo! Acquisition of Maktoob- I had the chance to record a video Interview with Keith Nillsson Senior Vice President International Emerging Markets Yahoo and Samih Toukan Co-Founder of Maktoob, now Director of Jabbar.
The 15 minutes interview covers topic r...
ArabCrunch broke the news at the global level, that Yahoo has acquired Maktoob and I updated the acquisition post and wrote with the completion of the deal, the remaining Maktoob Group companies – including Souq.com an e-commerce and auction website, cashU.com online payment card , Araby.com an Arabic search engine, and Tahadi.com an MMO ga...
Update: Video Interview here.
More Updates here: Jabbar acquired e-Marketing MENA.
Update: Yahoo press release is at the end of this post, Financial terms were not disclosed, but my sources say the deal is over than 100 million.
Update: As we said other Maktoob websites that are not branded under Maktoob name will be called "Jabbar"...
Massive multiplayer online game (MMOG or MMO) is a type video games which is capable of supporting hundreds or thousands of players simultaneously and played over the Internet. MMO games are becoming very popular recently across the world, but since many Games have many unsuitable characters and aspects to the culture and the religion of the Ar...
Since its inspection in around 1997, Maktoob The world's largest Arab online community, has been focusing in Arabic content. To this date there are few English services within Maktoob.com or Maktoob Group.
Maktoob.com’s relaunched and upgraded English business portal, now called Maktoob Business would be Maktoob’s biggest English service to ...
Last month I reported on ArabCrunch that facebook launched Arabic beta, but as of today yeserday its officially launched along with Hebrew according to Ghassan Haddad, Director of Internationalization at facebook.
As with all other Facebook international languages translation, facebook Arabic and Hebrew was translated by the communit...
2 days ago Facebook announced on the homepage (once logged in) that face book in English UK is available. The drop down menu offered an array of international languages including Arabic as beta.
Before Arabic was only available in the facebook’s translation app. Now it is an option for any user to add it without installing the app.
The in...
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